The Cage (Tygers of Pan Tang album)

The Cage
Studio album by Tygers of Pan Tang
Released August 1982
Genre Heavy metal, hard rock
Length 35:20
Label MCA
Producer Peter Collins
Tygers of Pan Tang chronology
Crazy Nights
(1981)		 The Cage
(1982)		 The Wreck-Age
(1985)

The Cage is a 1982 album by British heavy metal band Tygers of Pan Tang, released on MCA Records. It marked a move in a more commercial direction, selling over 200,000 copies and giving birth to two top 50 songs in the UK, namely the covers of Leiber & Stoller's "Love Potion No. 9" and the lesser known RPM song "Rendezvous". Another single charted at 63: the Steve Thompson song "Paris by Air".[1] It is shortly after producing this album that the band split for the first time, due to tensions with their record company. Robb Weir and Brian Dick then formed the band Sergeant.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal9/10[3]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Rendezvous" (Robert A. Johnson, Mark Stephens, Brent Maher) - 3:20 (RPM cover)
  2. "Lonely at the Top" (Steve Thompson) - 3:29
  3. "Letter from L.A." (Jon Deverill, Thompson) - 3:12
  4. "Paris by Air" (Thompson) - 2:56
  5. "Tides" (Fred Purser) - 4:13
Side two
  1. "Making Tracks" (Richard Laws, Deverill, Purser) - 3:01
  2. "The Cage" (Robb Weir, Purser) - 0:32
  3. "Love Potion No.9" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) - 3:17 (The Clovers cover)
  4. "You Always See What You Want" (Purser, Deverill) - 3:12
  5. "Danger in Paradise" (John Parr) - 3:29
  6. "The Actor" (Purser) - 4:15
1997 CD re-issue bonus tracks
  1. "Life of Crime" - 3:35
  2. "Love's a Lie" - 2:52
  3. "What You Sayin'" - 3:19
  4. "Making Tracks (extended remix)" - 6:23

Personnel

Band members
Additional musicians
Production

References

  1. ↑ "The Official Music Charts". The Official Music Charts. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Tygers of Pan Tang The Cage review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 371. ISBN 978-1894959315.
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